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GEF-4 Tracking Tool for Biodiversity Focal Area Strategic
Objective One:
Catalyzing Sustainability of Protected Area
Issue Criteria Score: Tick only one box
per question
Comment/Explanation Next steps
4. Protected area No firm objectives have been agreed for the protected area 0 The management plan is a tool of
objectives
Is management
undertaken according
to agreed objectives?
Planning
The protected area has agreed objectives, but is not managed according to
these objectives
The protected area has agreed objectives, but is only partially managed
according to these objectives
The protected area has agreed objectives and is managed to meet these
objectives
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support to the management of the
park that establishes the
objectives, norms and guidelines,
possible uses and strategies; to
improve, the common
participation, protection,
conservation and sustainable
management of the ecosystem and
its zone of neighborhood.
Also, funds provided by both the
SINAP, FIDECO and Chagres
5. Protected area design Inadequacies in protected area design mean achieving the major objectives of 0
Fund contribute to achieve these
objectives.
The boundaries of the protected
the protected area is very difficult
area are known both for staff and
Is the protected area the
right size and shape to
protect species,
habitats, ecological
processes and water
catchments of key
conservation concern?
Planning
Inadequacies in protected area design mean that achievement of major
objectives is difficult but some mitigating actions are being taken (e.g.
agreements with adjacent land owners for wildlife corridors or introduction of
appropriate catchment management)
Protected area design is not significantly constraining achievement of
objectives, but could be improved (e.g. with respect to larger scale ecological
processes)
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most inhabitants of the area,
however there are three different
limits: the one established by
Executive Order, field survey and
management plan. However, to
verify Executive Decree versus the
management plan, the current limits
are more in line that the ones set in
the Executive Decree.
Protected area design helps achievement of objectives; it is appropriate for
species and habitat conservation; and maintains ecological processes such as
surface and groundwater flows at a catchment scale, natural disturbance
patterns etc
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A field survey where the
boundaries were changed, but never
published officially, keeping
problems of ambiguity in the
interpretation of them. Moreover,
according to Law 21 of 1997 (Ley
21 de la ARI), areas under the
category of protected wilderness
area that apparently had to enter the
Park, but have not yet been
transferred. These areas are mainly
located on the shores of Alajuela
Lake and most are occupied by
locals, is to be determined based on
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